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by new299 8y ago
I can't see this killing off disposable cutlery completely, there are too many businesses that rely on it. Disposable cutlery can be made from wood for example (and often is, e.g. chopsticks). That said, is it really an issue? A comple
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by new299 8y ago
no, it's there. Not so easy to find perhaps: http://www.theoldrobots.com/Rob.html
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by new299 8y ago
What is the real technical achievement behind Duplex? What we've seen is a rather short tech demo. Speech synthesis has improved, but are you saying that Duplex is a massive step forward in speech recognition and natural language proce
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by new299 8y ago
Because A.I. has been sold as revolutionizing peoples lives. The second sentence of the article says Sundar Pichai, claimed in an interview that A.I. “is more profound than, I dunno, electricity or fire.”. But if people don't see any i
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by new299 8y ago
The first paper is almost 2 years old, and text-to-speech seems to be a relatively small component of Duplex.
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by new299 8y ago
I would be surprised if this wasn't an internal metric that the optimize for. I'd be surprised if a drop in viewing time didn't strongly correlate with cancelled subscriptions (which they use as motivation). When a film ends,
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by new299 8y ago
Duplex is a demo right? If AlphaZero (which doesn't impact users directly) and Duplex (which isn't released yet) are the best recent examples I can understand why there's negative press appearing.
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by new299 8y ago
I'm not saying it's an either/or proposition. I think it's great to see characters develop over as they encounter different situations and the long term implications of their actions. But I think it's also interesti
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by new299 8y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. I guess it's logical given that it's been going on in TV/films for some time. This is probably the end-game of Adblocking unfortunately. A lot more product placement that is obviously harder to f
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by new299 8y ago
Overall, I think it's a positive change. But I think there are other effects too. One is the trend toward longer, multi-season story arcs. This is also a trend in traditional television, but seems that the single episode story is dead
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by new299 8y ago
To add context (and as you probably know). The esp8266 is an older design repurposed as an "IoT" play. It was actually originally designed as a wifi interface. I think it was mostly used in cheap Android tablets. It just so happen
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by new299 8y ago
What I mean is there are aspects of embedded work that can be found in other jobs which are potentially more lucrative and may make your life easier later in your career. So, unless there's something in embedded work in particular, tha
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by new299 8y ago
I don't think his take makes much sense either. But you can get a MCU with embedded wifi/tcpip and 80MHz that costs about 1USD (esp8266). There are also pretty cheap/low power full Linux systems (KeyASIC make one that sits in
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by new299 8y ago
That sounds like a really nice mix of work. Personally that sounds like great fun. It's also giving you a skill set that you could transition into starting your own thing (building your own product prototypes if you get enough EE stuff
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by new299 8y ago
Depends on location perhaps? But personally I've not seen that. Google etc. will always be looking for all kinds of people. But are they looking for as many embedded devs? Are they senior positions? If you want to progress within those
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by new299 8y ago
Yes, I agree technically it isn't difficult. Depending on your location career mobility maybe less easy if you get pigeon holed as an "embedded engineer". If you're doing it because you enjoy it, that's great. But u
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by new299 8y ago
Unless you really love doing low-level stuff, I'd still probably recommend you don't though. As a career, it just doesn't give you the same opportunities. Yes, there are jobs, but I doubt you'll find the scope for advanc
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by new299 8y ago
I don't understand the take in this article. I've done embedded work. I could do embedded work, I probably wont because the pay is mostly terrible compared with either traditional software engineering or the more data orientated s
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by new299 8y ago
Does anyone have an idea of how difficult it would be to create a sensor network to monitor for CFCs? What would the PPM at source be? Quick googling suggests that there are sensors that can detect down to 1000PPM [1], but I'd guess yo
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by new299 8y ago
This comment was dead, I guess someone flagged it. I found the perspective interesting however, and I don't believe the tone is at all offensive (though perhaps it was misinterpreted as such?).
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by new299 8y ago
Google and Amazon (and I assume Facebook) interviews are already a large and uncompensated investment of time for the interviewee (up to several days). So I don't see it has much different. I can see that there are scenarios where it m
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by new299 8y ago
I'm not certain that it's true that you "will weed out the people" who can't solve algorithmic problems. There are a relatively small number of algorithmic problems, that are simplest enough to be asked and solved i
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by new299 8y ago
That's quite clearly not the only reason (and I'm be surprised if it was the majority reason in Europe) that people object to "career" politicians. The other, reason I've heard is that people who have not worked in
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by new299 8y ago
I read the blog post, it shows that if you give up your devices passcode then you give up access to essentially everything on that device. It would be nice to have additional layers of security, but do you think this was done as an anti-use
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by new299 8y ago
You proposed the initial analogy, so I was responding to that. Determining which appeals/email/campaigns are most effective is pretty trivial with open source tools, you don't need Google for this. Honestly part of the reason
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by new299 8y ago
No, but I'd expect you not to dump chemicals in drinking water yourself? Personally, I feel it would be better to have people with more technical competence involved in the campaign, because it looks a bit sloppy aside from anything el
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by new299 8y ago
The article is about an organization called Californians for Consumer Privacy. They use Google and Facebook trackers. The key quote is this: “The irony of criticizing Facebook and Google whilst using their services is not lost on us, but th
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by new299 9y ago
SLA printing services also provide a pretty cheap option (Shapeways or dirtySLA). You can also print (and then fire) ceramic parts printed with SLA printers (Vitrolite), I'm not sure very small parts would work well however. Milling se
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by new299 9y ago
Residential houses are often built using wooden frames, or a metal frame with everything else made of wood. Japan is humid, so if there's poor drainage the wood rots. Japan has Earthquakes, I guess that causes subsidence and other stru
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by new299 9y ago
If I've understood correctly, what you're saying is that there's really too much noise is the results which can neither be explained by shared environment, or genetics? I've browsed the paper, but must of missed it. How

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